Very disappointed in your paper, regarding the 'Bareback Portrait' article about porn star Dawson.
Interviewer/author Rick Reed offers only a phoned-in, perfunctory list of why Dawson has a problem. By giving Dawson so much voice, the article becomes a tacit advertisement for him and for the company Treasure Island's irresponsible 'products.'
Treasure Island and SXVideo ( a heavy advertiser in the IML convention ) are damaging the gay community worldwide by hawking their troubling wares.
Being HIV positive is nothing to be ashamed of, but being irresponsible with other people's lives, definitely is. Surely the morons of the christian right LOVE LOVE LOVE this sort of self-loathing and self-destructive behavior— it plays right into their pathetic perceptions of
gay men.
I do hope your readership ( and attendees of the IML ) vote with their wallets and boycott the sad, destructive products of Treasure Island and SXVideo.
Kevin Havener, Chicago